Just because you're not interested or motivated in changing something, doesn't mean it can't be changed.
City and state level political change is very malleable.
City and state level political change is very malleable.
Corporations have already figured this out, e.g. ALEC [1] writes laws, then gets sympathetic minions to enact them, but city politics still operate on a human scale in many places. I'd bet that a motivated campaign could reverse this move in San Diego, or at least figure out who pushed for it. I don't think there was massive popular support for cameras in streetlights.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...